Subsea Cable

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract by Ørsted Wind Power A/S to supply inter-array submarine cables for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm, located 160 km off the Yorkshire coast, UK. Once constructed, it will be able to supply well over 3 million homes with green, renewable electricity.

Rotech Subsea, a leading provider of innovative subsea trenching and excavation tools to the energy industry, has completed a cable de-burial, grab, cut, recovery and post-lay trenching on an inter array cable at a leading southern North Sea offshore wind farm.

Cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton, multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant and a remotely-controlled cable burying vehicle of consortium Jan De Nul Group-LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the second marine cable for the offshore wind farm 'west Alpha'.

International Projects Group (IPG), a specialist team within the RSK Group, will create a marine construction environmental management plan and provide construction environmental services for Nexans Norway AS to facilitate the building of the Celtic Interconnector, a 700 MW underwater cable being developed jointly by EirGrid and Réseau de Transport d’Électricité, the Irish and French electricity transmission system operators.

OEG Renewables, the newly established offshore wind focused division of the wider OEG Offshore group (OEG) announces the acquisition of 23 Degrees Renewables (23D).

JDR Cable Systems (JDR), a global subsea cable and umbilical supplier, part of the TFK Group, has been awarded the contract to supply, test and terminate the 66kV dynamic inter array cables (IAC) for independent renewable energy producer Qair’s floating offshore wind Eolmed pre-commercial 30MW project.

Rotech Subsea, the technology-driven provider of innovative subsea tools to the global energy industry, has delivered key remedial export cable burial operations at a major US offshore wind farm.

NKT is finalizing the contract for offshore export power cables for the first major offshore wind farms in Poland awarded by Baltic Power Sp. z.o.o.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has signed a contract with FSM Telecommunications Cable Corporation (FSMTCC), based in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), BwebwerikiNet Limited (BNL) of the Republic of Kiribati, and Nauru Fibre Cable Corporation (NFCC) of the Republic of Nauru for construction, supply and installation of the optical fiber submarine cable system to be called East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS).

As informed in Company Announcement no. 13 of July 7, 2022, NKT signed a contract for the high-voltage DC (HVDC) export power cable system for the prospective offshore wind farm, East Anglia THREE.

Prysmian Group is launching a new investment of around €120 million in its strategic plant in Pikkala, Finland. The investment — in addition to the €100 million already provided in 2022 — is aimed at further increasing the production capacity of the 525 kV HVDC submarine cable systems, supporting the growing market demand driven by the need to develop and upgrade power transmission grids for the energy transition.

In November 2022, Jan De Nul Group signed a contract with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution to supply and install in summer 2023 a 33kV interconnecting cable between mainland Scotland and the Orkney Island of Hoy, strengthening the local distribution grid.